hi ! i want to do some openGL-stuff for linux... for the next step, i need some sort of keyboard/mouse input, so i used X-events for input. now, i'm having some trouble, because X seems not to send a keyboard-event, when i press the key... it's send MUCH later... and when i say MUCH, i mean up to 1/2 minute !! i have compiled the lesson7-tutorial from NeHe, which is also using events for input & i have the same problems, there. it's a spinning cube (spinning, when pressing an arrow-key), and when i hold a key, it starts to spin 10-30 second later... what am i doing wrong ? my mainloop looks like this :

while (!done)
{
  while (XPending(display))
  {
    XNextEvent (display, &event);
    switch (event.type)
    {
      KeyPress:
      {
        // do stuff
        break:
      }
    }
  }
  render();
}

i've also tried 'XEventQueued()', but since the NeHe-tutorial does anything just like me & it does the same weird thing, i don't know, what to do... help ! [edited by - uNiQue0815 on September 16, 2002 12:03:17 PM]

My suggestion is look into SDL, or use SDL. www.libsdl.com

Glubo : yes... i''ve already noticed, that my problem doesn''t occur, if i don''t init OpenGL... but not using OpenGL isn''t an option for me, because i can''t do OpenGL stuff without OpenGL !
update the drivers ? i have the newest nVidia & GLX.

fukas : i already searched the SDL-code for their event-handling, but i couldn''t find anything (wow... i''ve understood Carmack''s Quake2 code better than SDL !!).

i also had problems using SDL, because it keeps telling me, i don''t have working OpenGL drivers... but that''s not true (except my PC is so-lightning-fast, that it can render Quake3 in 1280x1024 with >50fps !) without OpenGL / accel. ...

any other suggestions ?

well, i''ve spent a lot of hours on this problem now & i think i searched the whole www for it. but i found nothing. i don''t think getting event handling to work when OpenGL is initialized is an impossible thing to do... since other programs seem not to have any problems with it...

so what''s the thing, i''m doing wrong ?

no one ?

ok... i think i''ve solved the problem...

i needed to make a XSync(display, false); call in the mainloop.
still i''m wondering, why i couldn''t find anything about this in any tutorial / documentation in the whole www.

THIS was just one thing i tried in my last desperate attempts to solve my problem, after reading tons of tutorials, howtos & co !

never seemed programming so poorly documented to me before, now that i''ve started coding for linux...

thx 4 help attempts, anyway !

You will probably get some surprises if you just copy and paste from tutorials without any understanding of the system. The standard book about Xlib is online here http://capderec.udg.es:81/ebt-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/SGI_Developer/XLib_PG/

i didn''t just copy & paste some code... mostly (maybe) because i just didn''t find any code to copy & paste from...

no... seriously...

i''ve searched the www for manuals for hours & didn''t find anything useful. the book, you''ve linked is one good book for learning about X, but it didn''t talk about my problem (well, i''ve just been flying over it, since it''s 4:00am, here and i''m really tired...(must go to bed, now...). my problem was, that X seemed not to send events, when they happened, but much later, if OpenGL was initialized... it didn''t happen without opengl. i didn''t find anything about that in the book, nor anything about XSync().

the solution i found, was not copied & pasted from any tutorial... it was more like trial & success

so plz don''t tell me about this stupid ''newbie-copy-and-paste'' clichee... i might be new to linux/X, but i''m not new to programming.

-> it''s hard to understand, when there was no manual to learn from.
(maybe the manual you linked has some text about this... but as i already said... too tired now... gotta read tomorrow...)


thx 4 the link, anyway !